International

18-06-2021 OTTAWA: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has nominated Justice Mahmud Jamal as the next member of the Supreme Court of Canada, the first Muslim judge to take the seat. He will replace Justice Rosalie Abella, who retires from the top court on Canada Day, according to CBC news. “I know …

18-06-2021 Bureau Report LUCKNOW/ NEW DELHI: Indian villagers have erected a shrine to “goddess corona” and are offering her prayers in the hope that divine intervention can banish the deadly virus. Devotees in Shuklapur village, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, have been offering prayers, holy water, and flowers …

18-06-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies TEHRAN/ ISLAMABAD: When the polls open on Friday for Iran’s presidential election, four men will be on the ballot, but one enjoys a significant lead over the others. Observers predict Iran’s eighth president will be elected with very low turnout amid …

18-06-2021 ABUJA: Armed attackers belong with ISIS have killed a police officer and abducted five teachers and an unknown number of students from a school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kebbi, police said. The attack took place on the Federal Government College in the remote town of Birnin Yauri …

18-06-2021 GAZA CITY/ JERUSALEM: Israeli fighter jets have launched a series of air raids on the Gaza Strip for the second time since a shaky ceasefire ended last month’s 11-day war. Palestinian sources on the ground said Israeli missiles on Thursday hit several sites belonging to armed groups northwest of …

The dispute that has erupted on the popular social media site as Twitter is growing even more bitter for the central government. Twitter has lost the exemption from accountability it has received so for not enforcing the new IT rules. The new IT regulations brought in by the Center to …

17-06-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Uttarakhand State in northern India has ordered a police inquiry into allegations of private labs filing fake COVID reports. Media reports say fake names, mobile numbers and addresses were used in more than 100,000 tests during the Kumbh festival in April. The private labs were …

17-06-2021 GENEVA: US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to hold talks on arms control and to return their respective ambassadors to their posts, after a summit in Geneva that highlighted their deep discord on human rights, cyber-attacks, election interference and Ukraine. The meeting on Wednesday …

17-06-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: In a bid to revitalize the economy, Indian authorities on Wednesday reopened the Taj to the public as it reels from a disastrous second wave of the pandemic. The 17th-century white marble mausoleum, built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in the northern city of …

17-06-2021 A village in the centre of Myanmar has been burned down after clashes between the security forces and local guerrillas, leaving at least two people dead. Residents told the BBC that 200 of the 240 houses in Kin Ma were razed to the ground by the military on Tuesday. …